I had just deprived them of the statuses they had so much pride in after all.

◇ ◇ ◇

Tia and Marie didn’t follow Liam as he left the bridge.

Her face completely flushed, Tia looked completely spellbound.

Wallace was kind of creeped out by it.

“Hey, why are you so happy?”

Tia scoffed derisively, looking at Wallace like he was an idiot for not understanding her feelings.

“To have the strength to hold the two of us down with only one hand each, and the boldness to immediately intercept enemies that had resolved themselves for a suicide attack. Now thisis Lord Liam!”

For Tia, even being admonished by Liam was a reward for her, so she was delighted by the fact that she got to see this side of him.

Cedric’s shoulders dropped.

“That’s fine and all, but can somebody give me my orders already?”

Against the incoming enemy forces, their allies were losing ground.

Snapping out of her daze, Tia immediately started giving out commands.

“Prepare the mobile knights for dispatch, and bring out the ships that were built for short range combat! Pull back any vessels with less armour and have them focus on artillery, but make sure they’re wary of friendly fire!”

Switching mentalities, she gave out orders one after another to prepare a battlefield where mobile knights could display their strengths to the fullest.

“It’s amazing that they’ll even explode in space! How does that even work?!”

I beat them down with overwhelming power.

The mobile knight was able to use the One-Flash, but it’s reaction rate was dismal compared to Avid.

It wasn’t able to reproduce my movements all that well either.

Marie shot at and destroyed another aircraft that was trying to take my back.

Just by defeating the enemies in front of us, our kill scores were skyrocketing.

“Well, I guess it’s okay for a prototype.”

Just as I said that, a huge aircraft appeared among the enemy forces.

Marie tried shooting at it with her rifle, but the bullets and beams were easily repelled off of its armour.

“Those bastards! Lord Liam, leave this one to me!”

“Don’t be stupid, I’ve been waiting for someone like this.”

I advanced my aircraft forward and slashed at them with my blade, but the enemy deployed a spherical barrier of light around them.

It’s output was nothing to laugh at.

If the aircraft I was piloting was considered a real robot, then my opponent’s machine was a super one in comparison**.

“You’re pretty good, but that’s nothing to me!”

The enemy moved to catch me, so I cut off both of their arms.

Unable to process what had just happened, the enemy hurriedly tried to pull back.

“As my opponent you should entertain me more!”

Closing the distance and swinging down my blade, I broke through the enemy’s barrier shield– but then was stopped by their armour before I could bisect them.

“Tch.”

I clicked my tongue, let go of my sword, and quickly backed away. Immediately after a rain of beams and bullets fell down on the place I was just moments before. Swallowed up by the attack, the enemy aircraft exploded.

“…this might be a little difficult.”

Looking upwards, there were eleven more similarly built large aircrafts.

The red eyes in each of them were shining.

Marie moved forward as if to protect me.

“Lord Liam, these ones are dangerous. We need to take them down before they surround us.”

“That sounds like a good plan, but I don’t think they’ll let us.”

An enemy battleship had pointed their bow my way and even fired at me.

Completely disregarding their allies that were still nearby.

Honestly? Looking at things I was probably scre–

“…Avid?”

Turning towards a new presence I felt approaching, there was an aircraft rocketing towards my direction while weaving between enemy ships.

Marie broke out into confusion in the comm lines,

“Avid’s here?! That’s impossible! Who’s piloting it?!”

Apparently, Avid seems to have flown out from the Banfield fleet.

All on its own– without authorisation.

I smiled.

“Perfect follow up, guide!”

I charged my aircraft towards Avid, and as I adjusted it to match its relative speed, enemies started gathering around me.

But Avid spread out its arms, letting out lasers to destroy them.

The boosters attached to Avid disconnected themselves.

Catching the aircraft I was piloting with both of it’s hands, it then opened its cockpit hatch to receive me.

“Good job.”

Lowering the visor on my helmet, I opened the aircraft’s hatch and jumped out.

Immediately after, Avid reached out and caught me, sending me into its cockpit.

Inside was the nostalgic and spacious chamber I was used to.

I took off my helmet.

“It’s been a while since I rode you.”

No one was sitting in the pilot seat.

–in other words, this was all the work of the guide following up for me.

As I thought, he truly was reliable.

He brought Avid to me just when I needed it.

“I need to make sure to thank him again.”

Sitting down on the seat and grabbing the control stick, I was finally able to rampage with Avid for the first time in a while.

Brian(´; ω; ｀) “Lord Liam’s misunderstanding is painful. Lord Liam, you’re wrong! It was the dog that delivered Avid to you! The gratitude you’re giving to the guide is misplac– hmm?”

*Yes, Avid is described to be black. So I guess they really did only paint over the silver mythril lining instead of the black adamantium.
**’Real robot’ is a term used to refer to a machine whose specs are governed by realistic physics and technological limitations. While ‘Super Robot’ is a term used for super-sized, implausible machines that shouldn’t be able to exist, but do… its an anime trope thing.

Anything under pressure can explode, it’s fire that is hard to find in space.
If you really want to nitpick, the idea that someone can swing a sword in space without ending up like a ballerina itself is ridiculous.

Thanks for the chapter! Destroy those arrogant fools! And kill the guide with your gratitude! speaking about the guide, I wonder if Liam’s former wife was also reincarnated into that world? I mean it’d be interesting to see~ Also when will our dear Liam figure out the truth? Never? Seems like it will probably be at the very end of the series

He’s ‘connected’ to Liam too deeply. It’s been shown that he still feels his gratitude even between through galaxy-wide distances. (Like while he was in the Razel house and Liam was back home, or while Liam was in the elementary school and he was in the imperial capital).

Plus, he’s too weak to go between dimensions anymore because of Liam constantly draining him. Having Liam fall into despair and die is the easiest way for him to regain his power, go to another dimension, and build a connection to another poor sap that doesn’t have a guardian angel dog protecting them.

I feel like the dog merely warned Avid that his master was in danger. Unlike the Guide, the dog doesn’t waste his energy on idiotic things that can be done indirectly and more efficiently.

Additionally, yeah, just how strong must Liam be, without suit to *easily* bend floor that is specifically made to handle ship to ship fire (they were in the command room, which should be most heavily defended part of the ship besides the engines.

The girl’s heads are also surprisingly tough to e able to shake denting the floor with their head off like that.